About Us

Painted Dog Conservation Incorporated (Australia)is a non-profit organisation, established in October 2003 to provide support for projects in Africa that are actively conserving the endangered African Wild Dog, also known as the Painted Hunting Dog or Painted Wolf. Originally focussed on the Painted Dog Research Project in Zimbabwe, we now also support projects in South Africa, Zambia and Namibia.

Painted Dog Conservation Incorporated (PDC Inc) was founded by Greg Gibbard, John and Angela Lemon, Richard (Dick) Watson, Chris and Margie McClelland, May and Wilf Core and Lyn Clune, and is registered in Western Australia

Membership to the association is open to all Australian residents and to the International community, and donations are tax deductible to Australian residents. Please browse through our website, the following pages contain lots of interesting dog facts plus merchandise for sale and information on how you can support our work.

Our new initiative "Doggy Dollars" has just been launched-please visit "Support Us"- Doggy Dollars page to learn how just a couple of dollars per week can make a real difference to our frontline projects!

Mission Statement

PDC Inc's mission is the:

• Provision of resources and facilities to support research into the African Painted Dog (Lycaon pictus)
• Conservation of the African Painted dog with particular emphasis on threat prevention
• Education of the wider community on Painted dogs and related wildlife issues
• Treatment and care of sick or injured Painted dogs and the rehabilitation of such dogs back into their natural environment
• Increasing in the range states the population of the African Painted Dog

Objects of Association

To advance conservation for the public benefit of the African Painted Dog, (also referred to as a Wild Dog) Lycaon pictus, through education promoting and disseminating research into such conservation and seeking to achieve their sustainable management.

To establish and maintain a public fund to be called, “Painted Dog Conservation Incorporated, Public Fund” for the specific purpose supporting the environmental objects/purposes of Painted Dog Conservation Incorporated. The fund is established to receive all gifts of money or property for this purpose and any money received because of such gifts must be credited to its bank account. The Fund may not receive any other money or property into its bank account and will comply with subdivision 30-E of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997.

The property and income of the Association shall be applied solely towards the promotion of the objects of the Association and no part of that property or income may be paid or otherwise distributed, directly or indirectly, to members, except in good faith in the promotion of those objects.

Public Fund Committee Details

John Lemon (Chairman)

For more information about John click here

Angela Lemon (Vice Chair and Secretary)

Carol Shannon (Treasurer)

Commitee Members

Wayne Hamilton

Ric Dunlop